The Role of Cultural Volunteerism in Shaping the Historical Memory of Modern Russian Youth

2020 ◽  
pp. 102-106
Author(s):  
Valery N. Ratushnyak ◽  
Valery V. Kasyanov ◽  
Oleg V. Ratushnyak
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Standard Approach ◽  
Russian State ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
Modern Russian

Currently, one of the main strategic tasks of the Russian state is to preserve the cultural and civilizational code of Russia. In this regard, issues related to historical memory are being updated. Despite the development of the problem field of research, the authors of this work chose a non-standard approach to the problem and set a goal - to consider the formation of the historical memory of modern Russian youth through the development of cultural volunteerism. The example of cultural volunteering shows how objects of spiritual, historical and cultural heritage are preserved, cultural, educational and creative events are held, and the population gets acquainted with the world’s best examples of art. During the analysis, the authors came to the conclusion that volunteering in the field of culture helps not only to preserve the cultural and historical heritage of the country, to immerse young people in the history of their people and to acquaint the population with the best world examples of art, but also allows young people to become the part of the country’s history by organizing and conducting large-scale events.

scholarly journals The involvement of UNESCO and international non-profit organizations in preserving historical memory and cultural heritage in Pakistan

2020 ◽  
pp. 155-165
Author(s):  
Pavlo Chutkyi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Problem Area ◽  
Unstable State ◽  
Heritage Foundation ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government ◽  
Historical Heritage

The article deals with the review of historical memory of Pakistan. The historiography of different aspects of historical heritage and history of Pakistan are analyzed. The author examines the cooperation between the government of Pakistan and UNESCO. The author describes the features of functioning of oral history of Pakistan and most popular non-governmental organizations, which study historical heritage of this country. In order to build a successful modern state, it is necessary to pay particular attention to the specifics of the formation of historical memory, as it is designed to perform the creative function of nation-building, as it also serves as an indicator of socio-economic development in a particular country. A review of such practices on using the example of Pakistan demonstrates the importance of an active government dialogue with international organizations on issues related to the preservation of historical and cultural heritage. The analysis of the state of research and preservation of tangible and intangible cultural heritage of Pakistan allows us to distinguish several levels of study of this problem area. These are, first and foremost, the regulatory mechanisms of the Pakistani authorities, which cooperate with UNESCO on the issues related to the inclusion of Pakistani historical sites to the UNESCO World Heritage List. Other important public institutions, that preserve and disseminate historical memory together with the government, include the Heritage Foundation of Pakistan, the Khairpur Heritage Centre, and the 1947 Partition Archive. These institutions deal with the preservation of cultural heritage, historical monuments and the development of oral history in Pakistan. Studying the experience of interpreting the past and the policy of preserving cultural and historical heritage in such an internally unstable state as Pakistan will aid to understand the level of interaction between state, public and international institutions in addressing this issue.

scholarly journals Ilyushin Il-2 in Archival and Architectural Manifestation of Historical Memory of the Great Patriotic War of 1941–45

2021 ◽  
pp. 1245-1256
Author(s):  
Anna V. Andreeva ◽  
◽  
Ludmila M. Artamonova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
State Archive ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Of ◽  
On Line ◽  
Cultural Code ◽  
A Site

The article examines and compares archival documents from the Russian State Archive in Samara (RGA v g. Samara) and Monument to the Ilyushin Il-2 as components of the “site of commemoration,” which has become a part of historical and cultural code of the city. The example of perception of this national and local symbol of the war reveals features of and prospects for constructing historical memory; detailed written evidences, vivid visual images, large-scale architectural and urban planning solutions are used. The theoretical basis for the research is Maurice Halbwachs’ concept of “historical memory” and Pierre Nora’s “lieux de m?moire.” Russian and foreign scientists are developing these concepts within the frameworks of interdisciplinary “memory studies.” The important role in these studies belongs to historians. Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–45 became a backbone idea for our country. It gives meaning to the historical process in the 20th century, manifesting in numerous and various empirical data, events, and artifacts. The Ilyushin Il-2 became a significant “site of memory” in Samara for two reasons. Firstly, many documents on its creation are stored in the Russian State Archive in Samara and are available to researchers and constantly exhibited (on-line as well as real). Secondly, the Ilyushin Il-2 visually symbolizes Samara’s contribution to the Great Victory, as the aircraft, manufactured and restored here, became a center of the composition of the monument to military and labour glory of the citizens in the days of the Great Patriotic War. This monument was opened in 1973. Its last reconstruction was carried out in 2015–17 in order to preserve this unique historical relic. The aircraft-monument and written evidence on the history of its creation, destinies of inventors, production organizers, engineers, workers are situated not far from one other. The Constructor Ilyushin Square and the Memory Square, where the monument and the archive building stand, are connected by Moscow Avenue. It is not just a transport artery, but a pivot of historical memory uniting its documentary, material, and artistic incarnations into general cultural space, in which the Il-2 plays its important role as a "site of memory."

scholarly journals Cultural tourism: topical issues in the context of cultural and historical memory

2021 ◽  
Vol 291 ◽  
pp. 05025
Author(s):  
Tatiana L. Kashchenko ◽  
Irina V. Polozhentseva
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Training System ◽  
Expert Assessment ◽  
Opinion Poll ◽  
Historical Heritage

The authors follow up the issues of cultural tourism in their relationship with cultural and historical heritage in the context of education of young people. The methods of cultural and historical analysis, forecasting, method of expert assessment, sociological methods are used at the article. Emphasizing the importance of cultural heritage in the globalizing world, the authors consider it as a factor of collective identity formation, which is important for national stability and safety ensuring. In the authors’ opinion the absolute demand for the preservation of cultural and natural heritage for future generation with awareness of not only economic but social benefit of its preservation should be the long-term strategy of modern cultural policy in the Russian Federation. They focus on objects of city architecture and the urban environment as triggers of cultural memory and territorial (local) identity. Based on the opinion poll data among first-year students of K. G. Razumovsky Moscow State University of Technologies and Management (FCU) the authors highlight the main issues of updating cultural and historical heritage as a means of young people education: the formation of young people’s interest in the history of the culture of their region and the country as a whole; providing of the assess to cultural values; education of careful attitude towards cultural and natural monuments, respect for the authenticity and diversity of cultural values of Russia and mankind; training in anti-vandal non-destructive behavior; involving in active participation of protection of cultural heritage monuments; popularization of tourism culture among the younger generation including the development of a training system for organizers of youth tourism (volunteers).

A Yahgan for the killing: murder, memory and Charles Darwin

2011 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 415-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOSEPH L. YANNIELLI
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Western Coast ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
European Expansion ◽  
Multiple Contexts ◽  
History Of

AbstractIn March 1742, British naval officer John Byron witnessed a murder on the western coast of South America. Both Charles Darwin and Robert FitzRoy seized upon Byron's story a century later, and it continues to play an important role in Darwin scholarship today. This essay investigates the veracity of the murder, its appropriation by various authors, and its false association with the Yahgan people encountered during the second voyage of theBeagle(1831–1836). Darwin's use of the story is examined in multiple contexts, focusing on his relationship with the history of European expansion and cross-cultural interaction and related assumptions about slavery and race. The continuing fascination with Byron's story highlights the key role of historical memory in the development and interpretation of evolutionary theory.

“Reading mysterious Chersonesos writings”. Interactive excursion-play around cultural heritage objects of Byzantine Chersonesos (part 1)

2021 ◽  
pp. 616-631
Author(s):  
L.V. Dmitrieva
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
World Views ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Russian State ◽  
State Pedagogical ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Culture ◽  
Cultural Heritage Objects ◽  
Partnership Program

The proposed scenario of the interactive excursion-performance is designed for a children's audience of 9–11 years. The route is planned as a tour of the historical and cultural space, and reinvigoration of this Byzantine city. Thus, the excursion content is realized by means of a visual and associative consequence connected with the places of interests artistic artifacts: Christian character images reveal the world views of the medieval culture. The project is part of the academic partnership program of the Russian State Pedagogical University named after A.I. Herzen with the historical and archaeological museum-reserve “Chersonesos Tauric” and is implemented during visiting summer practices of bachelors of the Department of Theory and History of Culture.

THE MAIN PROBLEMS OF COLLECTING THE DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE AND CREATING THE STATE ARCHIVAL FUND OF THE USSR IN 1917–1930S

2021 ◽  
pp. 82-99
Author(s):  
Nina I. Khimina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
The State ◽  
Record Keeping ◽  
History Of Collecting ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
State Archives ◽  
Effective Use

The article examines the history of collecting documentary and cultural heritage since 1917 and the participation of archives, museums and libraries in the creation of the Archival Fund of the country. In the 1920s and 1930s, archival institutions were established through the efforts of outstanding representatives of Russian culture. At the same period, the structure and activities of the museums created earlier in the Russian state in the 18th – 19th centuries were improved. The new museums that had been opened in various regions of Russia received rescued archival funds, collections and occasional papers. It is shown that during this period there was a discussion about the differentiation of the concepts of an “archive”, “library” and a “museum”. The present work reveals the difficulties in the interaction between museums, libraries and archives in the process of saving the cultural heritage of the state and arranging archival documents; the article also discusses the problems and complications in the formation of the State Archival Fund of the USSR. During this period, the development of normative and methodological documents regulating the main areas of work on the description and registration of records received by state repositories contributed to a more efficient use and publication of the documents stored in the state archives. It is noted that museums and libraries had problems connected with the description of the archival documents accepted for storage, with record keeping and the creation of the finding aids for them, as well as with the possibilities of effective use of the papers. The documents of the manuscript departments of museums and libraries have become part of the unified archival heritage of Russia and, together with the state archives, they now provide information resources for conducting various kinds of historical research.

scholarly journals THE INFLUENCE OF HISTORICAL MEMORY ON MODERN UKRAINIANS’ POSTCOLONIAL SYNDROME OVER COME

2017 ◽  
pp. 36-40
Author(s):  
Victor Dotsenko
Keyword(s):  
Historical Memory ◽  
Modern History ◽  
The Real ◽  
Imperial Russia ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Russian

The attempts to determine main fundamental historical myths, which were used by soviet and modern Russian ideologists for soviet person historical conscience formation and their overcome in modern Ukraine are represented in the article on the basis of scientific works, analysis of existent historians, political social analysts. The concept of «nation’s friendship» dominated in historiography and public discussions in USSR during the decades. This concept successfully hided soviet type of imperialism and colonialism. It was the inheritance of new Ukrainian state. The struggle for Ukrainian nation’s conscience between Ukraine and imperial Russia continued during the whole modern history of Ukrainian state. Russia tries to privatize the historical memory about Slavonic state origin and to use it for new imperial ideological project creation. Ukrainian scientistsand culture figures firmly resist to Russian ideological offensive at the same time getting tiny support from politicians. The winner in the war for national Ukrainian identity saving and Ukrainian political nation creation is going to be a person who will reveal the real Ukrainian history without ideological myths and post-imperial stereotypes.

scholarly journals The Peculiarities of Overcoming the Painful Nazi and Socialist Past in Contemporary Germany

2019 ◽  
pp. 664-685
Author(s):  
Аndriy Kudriachenko
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
German Society ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
National Socialist ◽  
Modern Germany ◽  
New Public ◽  
Historical Heritage

The article analyses the components of overcoming the national socialist past of Germany and the totalitarian legacy of the socialist era, identifies four historical periods, displays the fundamental difference and common features in the approaches of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic to the study of the national socialist past, and outlines a system of measures for the formation of political culture in reunified Germany. Various components of the policy of clear distancing from the Hitler regime and integration of former Nazis into new public institutions as a way to establish modern democratic foundations of Germany’s development are considered. The article emphasizes the importance of the generational change and critical public study of the painful past and an important role of the establishment of a new political culture. The growing public interest and intensive public discussions in united Germany related to the formation of historical memory are pointed out. The importance and significance of studying the GDR’s past and overcoming differences between citizens of the Eastern and Western parts of reunified Germany are emphasized. The article also outlines new approaches and visions of self-identification of a state, society and citizens based on the so-called constitutional patriotism. The author emphasizes that the German society has established the idea that any positive historical myths cannot become a basis for the genuine development of a country and that an antidote to the repetition of the terrible pages of history is not relegating them to oblivion but immortal memory thereof. Such an approach included an appropriate set of sociopolitical and economic measures ranging from property restitution and lustration to the payment of monetary compensation to victims of the regime and creation of memorial complexes. The author hopes that overcoming the burdensome Nazi and totalitarian past will continue to serve as a powerful guarantee of the democratic progress of modern Germany. Keywords: FRG, GDR, historical memory, World War II, national tragedy, historical heritage.

scholarly journals High Voltage of the City: The Development of Siberian Historical Urban Studies in the Works of an Irkutsk Historian (to the 70th Anniversary of the Birth of Professor Vadim Shakherov)

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 733-751
Author(s):  
Natalya Gavrilova ◽  
Irina Dameshek ◽  
Sofia Kuras
Keyword(s):  
Social Activity ◽  
State University ◽  
Credit System ◽  
Research Career ◽  
20Th Century History ◽  
Merchant Class ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
The City

The article provides the analysis of the main stages in the research career of the famous historian, urbanist and expert in the history of Siberian entrepreneurship, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor V. Shakherov. The evolution of the scholar’s scientific interests is highlighted in the text. The author outlines the main areas of the scientist’s research: studying the role of the city in building economic and socio-cultural environment of Siberia in the period from the 18th to the early 20th century, history of merchant class and entrepreneurship in pre-revolutionary Siberia, history of banking and credit system of the region, historic and cultural monuments of Siberia. The article presents the analysis of Shakherov’s major works, which reflect his contribution to the development of Siberian studies. Special attention is paid to his scientific, pedagogical and social activity aimed at preserving historical heritage of Irkutsk. The author of the article emphasizes that the research career of V. Shakherov and History Faculty of Irkutsk State University are tightly connected.

scholarly journals On the Issue of the Berber Written Tradition

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 232-248
Author(s):  
E. N. Fursova
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Handwritten Documents ◽  
Linguistic Rights ◽  
Oral Form ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
Private Collections ◽  
Official Status

The article is devoted to the study of the linguistic tradition of the Berbers, who are the indigenous people of North Africa. The Berbers have maintained a rich tradition of spoken language. At the turn of the 20th ‑21st centuries, against the backdrop of the intensification of the movement for self‑determination, their cultural and linguistic rights, the Berbers launched a large‑scale activity aimed at restoring the national written language. The author suggested that the need to develop standardized writing was partly due to the desire of the Berbers to consolidate the official status of their language in the Constitution. The author notes that the aggravation of the so‑called “Berber question” at the end of the 20th century spurred the interest of scientists and researchers in the Berber written heritage. Most of the surviving handwritten documents make Berber texts (mostly religious), recorded using the Arabic alphabet between the 15th and early 20th centuries. The study of conditions for their creation and fields of their application shows that these texts played a significant role in the dissemination of religious and scientific knowledge among the Berbers. It is concluded that despite the use of the predominantly oral form of the language, the Berbers managed to create a unique written tradition. The article discusses in detail the main problems of the study of Berber manuscripts, among which: the requirement from the researcher of serious pre‑knowledge in various fields; the problem of accessibility of texts stored in private collections; the need to develop unified approaches to the description of Berber manuscripts, their digitization and other important arrangements to ensure the availability of documents for the scientific‑research community. Particular attention is paid to the history of the creation of the first collections of Berber manuscripts and their cataloging. The author has also highlighted the work of scientists, who made a qualitative contribution to the study of the Berber manuscripts, most of which have not yet been discovered and carry significant potential aimed at pre‑ serving and enhancing the Berber cultural and historical heritage.

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